{"id":8505,"date":"2025-11-13T10:02:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T09:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/?p=8505"},"modified":"2025-11-13T10:04:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T09:04:42","slug":"new-image-captures-spooky-bat-signal-in-the-sky-eso-press-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/new-image-captures-spooky-bat-signal-in-the-sky-eso-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist\u2019s impression of the initial shape of a supernova explosion – ESO Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO\u2019s VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star just as the blast was breaking through the star\u2019s surface. For the first time, astronomers unveiled the shape of the explosion at its earliest, fleeting stage. This brief initial phase wouldn\u2019t have been observable a day later and helps address a whole set of questions about how massive stars go supernova – Read the full story on<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This artist\u2019s impression shows a star going supernova. About 22 million light-years away the supernova, SN 2024ggi, exploded in the galaxy NGC 3621. Using the ESO\u2019s Very Large Telescope, astronomers managed to capture the very early stage of the supernova when the blast was breaking through the star\u2019s surface. Observing the breakout so early on \u2014 26 hours after the supernova was first detected \u2014 revealed its true shape. The supernova broke out in an olive-like form. This marks the first ever observation of the shape of a supernova explosion at this very early stage – Credit: ESO\/L. Cal\u00e7ada<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO\u2019s VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star just as the blast was breaking through the star\u2019s surface. For the first time, astronomers unveiled the shape of the explosion at its earliest, fleeting stage. This brief initial phase wouldn\u2019t have been observable a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[671,390,670,365],"class_list":["post-8505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-scientific-news","tag-bat","tag-eso-2","tag-halloween-2","tag-vlt"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/eso2520-ENG.png",1095,549,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/eso2520-ENG.png",150,75,false],"medium":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/eso2520-ENG.png",300,150,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/eso2520-ENG.png",768,385,false],"large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/eso2520-ENG.png",1024,513,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/eso2520-ENG.png",1095,549,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/eso2520-ENG.png",1095,549,false]},"post_excerpt_stackable":"

Swift observations with the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO\u2019s VLT) have revealed the explosive death of a star just as the blast was breaking through the star\u2019s surface. For the first time, astronomers unveiled the shape of the explosion at its earliest, fleeting stage. This brief initial phase wouldn\u2019t have been observable a day later and helps address a whole set of questions about how massive stars go supernova – Read the full story on: This artist\u2019s impression shows a star going supernova. About 22 million light-years away the supernova, SN 2024ggi, exploded in the galaxy NGC 3621.…<\/p>\n","category_list":"News<\/a>, Scientific news<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"Maria Rosa Panzera","url":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/author\/maria-rosa-panzera\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8514,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8505\/revisions\/8514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}